Book Reviews

by Sheila (30-B-2) FPE

THE NEW YORK SPY, edited by Alan Rinzler; David White Co., 60 E. 55th, New York, 10022. 408 pp + 23 index, + 5 misc. $6.00 (6/16/67)

With the publication of THE LONDON SPY in 1703, Ned Ward began a series of guide books to the great cities of the world. After a trifling lapse of 264 years, THE LON- DON SPY was reissued in com-

pletely modern form early this year and THE NEW YORK SPY carries on this series of intimate descriptions of fascinating cities. It will be followed by Rome, Paris and San Francisco if all goes well. The ex- pressed intention is to avoid the trite "you-MUST- see" format, and this has been admirably done by the 25 contributors. Each is an expert in the field on which he or she writes, and each has given a personal touch to that chapter. You learn how to keep the children out of your hair, while following explicit instructions for locating an Ambulance, a Ballerina, and on through to a Zipper-Hospital. You also learn quite a few ways to keep out of trouble or to get in no deeper than you choose.

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To me, the only flaw in the shopping chapter was the failure to mention the shops specializing in the problems of tall girls but no reader will fail to find those for herself. Another reviewer complained of the rather pervasive Jewish flavor, but I think that is only fitting in discussing a city to whose culture the Hebrews have made such tremendous contri- butions. For wanderers from West of the Hudson into

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